BRIDGEPORT -- A Fairfield University graduate under federal indictment for sexually abusing underprivileged Haitian boys through his charity that provided them with food, shelter and schooling now faces more charges.

Douglas Perlitz, the founder of Project Pierre Toussaint in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city, was charged Thursday by a federal grand jury with sexually abusing nine more boys in his program.

The charity was established with millions in donations from wealthy Fairfield and Westchester County residents, many with ties to the Fairfield University community, and Perlitz was honored by the university with an honorary degree in 2002 for his charitable enterprise.

Perlitz now faces nine charges of traveling from Connecticut to Haiti to engage in sex with minors and 10 charges of engaging in sex with minors in a foreign land.

The new indictment brings to 18 the number of boys who Assistant U.S. Attorney Krishna Patel and Stephen Reynolds claim were abused sexually by Perlitz between 1998 and 2008.

Because of the new charges, Perlitz, who is being held without bond at the Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island, will be brought to federal court in New Haven at 9 a.m. Feb. 2. He will appear before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to enter new not guilty pleas.